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“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me”
Chapter 3, pride
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‘He was not more eloquent on the subject of tenderness than of pride.’
Chapter 34, pride
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‘in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others’
Chapter 4, pride/status
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“But with such a father and mother, and such low connections, I am afraid there is no chance of it.’
Chapter 8, pride/status
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“she derives part of her abilities from rank and fortune, part from her authoritative manner,”
Chapter 16, pride/status
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“The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it:”
Chapter 24, prejudice/Elizabeth
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‘She stared, coloured, doubted and was silent.’
Chapter 34, prejudice/Elizabeth
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‘Whatever he said, was said well; and whatever he did, done gracefully.’
Chapter 16, prejudice
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“I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think.”
Chapter 17, prejudice
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‘He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world.’
Chapter 3, prejudice
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‘by everyone else Mr Darcy was condemned as the worst of men.’
Chapter 24, prejudice
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“You take delight in vexing me.”
Chapter 1
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‘a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind, had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her.’
Chapter 42
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“considering Mr Collins’s character, connections, and situation in life”
Chapter 22, marriage
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“It is unaccountable! In every view it is unaccountable!”
Chapter 24, marriage
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“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
Chapter 34, love/marriage
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“My affections and wishes are unchanged”
Chapter 58, love/marriage
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‘She is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld!’
Chapter 3, love/Bingley
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“He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance, but that is all.”
Chapter 24, love/Jane
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‘a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.’
Chapter 1, love
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‘Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.’
Chapter 6, love/marriage
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‘fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mein’
Chapter 3, reputation/standards of men
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‘by everyone else Mr Darcy was condemned as the worst of men’
Chapter 24, reputation
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‘a fine countenance, a good figure, and very pleasing address.’
Chapter 16, reputation
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‘all that he had suffered from him, was now openly acknowledged’
Chapter 24, reputation
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‘Why must she be scampering about the country, because her sister has a cold?’
Chapter 8, reputation
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‘she had never felt so strongly as now, the disadvantages which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage,’
Chapter 42, reputation
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“I consider the clerical office as equal in point of dignity with the highest rank in the kingdom”
Chapter 18, status
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“She likes to have the distinction of rank preserved.”
Chapter 29, status
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‘His sense of her inferiority - of it being a degradation’
Chapter 34, status
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“He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.”
Chapter 56, status
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“Come as soon as you can on receipt of this.”
Chapter 7, letters
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“respectful compliments to your lady and daughters, your well-wisher and friend,”
Chapter 13, letters
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“her relations all wish the connection as much as his own;”
Chapter 21, letters
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‘But I have bad news for you and it couldn’t be delayed’
Chapter 46, letters
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“Miss Bingley said something of his never returning to Netherfield again,”
Chapter 26, letters
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“I will only add, God bless you.”
Chapter 35, letters
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‘the assembly brought the former to Longbourn to hear and to communicate.’
Chapter 5, gossip
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‘affected them in no other way than as a piece of news to spread at Meryton.’
Chapter 23, gossip
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‘he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.’
Chapter 1, gossip
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“Mr Bingley thought her quite beautiful and danced with her twice”
Chapter 3, gossip/Bingley
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“But I can guess how it was; every body says that he was ate up with pride.”
Chapter 5, gossip
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‘all that he had suffered from him, was now openly acknowledged’
Chapter 24, gossip
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‘Darcy was continually giving offence.’
Chapter 4, standards of men
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‘Mr Collins was only a clergyman’
Chapter 23, standards of men
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“Mr Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man;”
Chapter 24, standards of men
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“A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year.”
Chapter 1, standards of men
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‘Bingley was sure of being liked wherever he appeared,’
Chapter 4, standards of men
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“I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen, in the whole range of acquaintance, that are really accomplished
Chapter 8, standards of women
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“if liable to such defects if temper, she could not contribute much to my felicity.”
Chapter 20, standards of women
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“Everybody said how well she looked; and Mr Bingley thought her quite beautiful,”
Chapter 3, standards of women
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“You wish to think all the world respectable,”
Chapter 24, standards of women
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“the great disadvantage to us all which must arise from the public notice of Lydia’s unguarded and imprudent manner”
Chapter 41, standards of women
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‘Lydia was Lydia still; untamed, unabashed, wild, noisy and fearless.’
Chapter 51, standards of women
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‘his having ten thousand a year’
Chapter 3, wealth
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‘They were all of them warm in her admiration’
Chapter 43, wealth
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‘their brother’s fortune and their own had been acquired by trade.’
Chapter 4, wealth
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‘he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by business,’
Chapter 5, wealth
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“but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours”
Chapter 39, wealth
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“She has no money, no connections, nothing that can tempt him”
Chapter 46, wealth
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‘Mr Darcy spoke with affectionate praise of his sister’s proficiency’
Chapter 31, Darcy
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‘He is just what a young man ought to be’
Page 14, Jane/Bingley
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‘easiness, openness, ductility of his temper’
Chapter 4, Bingley
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“you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person’
Page 140, Elizabeth
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“Obstinate, headstrong girl!”
Page 298, Elizabeth
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“But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
Chapter 36, Elizabeth
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‘at that moment she felt that to be mistress of Pemberly might be something!’
Chapter 43, Elizabeth
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“not half so handsome as Jane’
Chapter 1, Jane
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“Your sweetness and disinterested es are angelic”
Chapter 24, Jane
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“You never see a fault in anybody”
Jane
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“if I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient”
Chapter 29, Lady Catherine
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‘Elizabeth felt all the impertinence of her questions’
Page 139, Lady Catherine
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“You ought to know that I am not to be trifled with”
Chapter 56, Lady Catherine
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